Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.

[The following is excerpted from "10 Most Common Security Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Databases," a new report published this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Databases contain ...

No programmer is perfect, but some mistakes are more dangerous than others. While some mistakes might just slow down your site, others can open up vulnerabilities that expose your code, your database ...

Magento patched 37 flaws Thursday, including a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could have let an attacker take over a site. Magento patched 37 vulnerabilities on Thursday, ...

There are several common custom software vulnerabilities that must be addressed prior to a major release. Detecting, mitigating, and preventing system vulnerabilities is critical to assure consistent ...

Contrast Security published an analysis of real-world application attack and vulnerability data from September 2019, finding that in the .NET world, the top three vulnerabilities were SQL Injection, ...

WhiteHat Security's new Website security statistics released today came with a mostly unchanged list of the top 10 vulnerabilities -- cross-site scripting (XSS) is still king -- but also a peek at ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...

The security community is divided about the recent arrest of a security researcher who hacked into the website for the elections division of a county in Florida. The question is whether he deserved to ...